A young boy has been unable to go to a school for around eight weeks since moving to Rayleigh due to over subscription in the town’s schools.

The seven-year-old’s father, James Webb, 35, of Hollytree Gardens, has been unable to get his son let into any primary schools in his catchment area.

He said that every school in the area is oversubscribed for key stage two pupils.

Mr Webb, who agreed with the Echo not to name his son, said: “Every school in the area is full and oversubscribed as well, because more children are being forced upon the schools.

“There is no space for our child, we appealed against it but that was refused.”

The family moved to Rayleigh from Dagenham earlier this year.

Two of the family’s children were able to gain school places quickly once they had moved to the area.

Their youngest child, four, has been given a place at a school within their Rayleigh catchment.

However, their teenage daughter also had issues getting into a new secondary school in Rayleigh.

She now attends a school out of catchment. Mr Webb has said that the long wait to return to school has started to worry his son.

He said: “I think it is going to give him a complex about school. “He is an academic child, he likes schools and looks forward to it.

“We have tried to explain to We have tried to explain to him that the schools are full up but he is starting to think, ‘why don’t the schools like me?’ That’s all he knows about it.”

Mr Webb added that his family moved to Rayleigh because of the quality of the schools in the town and he wanted his children to get a good education.

He said: “We may have to look out of catchment to get our son into a school.

“We have one child, who is four in a Rayleigh school and then he’d be in a school somewhere else.

“We would have to get child care in order to handle it, which is just unacceptable.”

The family have attempted to appeal the decision but were unsuccessful.

Mr Webb had contacted Mark Francois, MP for Rayleigh and Wickford, regarding the issue.

Mr Francois told the Echo: “It is good news that two of Mr Webb’s three children have managed to find local school places, after recently moving into the area.

“But I can understand the family’s frustration that their third child has not yet found a place.

“My office have been in contact with Mr Webb to ask for more details on the situation so that I can raise the matter with county councillor Ray Gooding, the cabinet member for education at County Hall, in the hope that he can help.”